OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Biosocial Science is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The socio-colonial history of Surinamese surnames applied to a validated surname list to identify ancestry in health research	25
Perceptions of preconception health messaging and responsibility: engaging with ‘health helpers’ in the Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative-South Africa trial	18
Status and correlates of non-communicable diseases among children and adolescents in slum and non-slum areas of India's four metropolitan cities	17
Regional variations in the acceptance and experience of intimate partner violence in Nigeria: Revisiting cosmopolitan-success and conservative-failure hypothesis	14
Pandemic preparedness: what difference does experience make?	12
Social determinants of chronic diseases reporting among slum dwellers in Egypt	12
Undernutrition among children and its determinants across the parliamentary constituencies of India: a geospatial analysis	10
‘It all depends on your faith’: Spiritual illnesses and traditional healing in rural Limpopo Province, South Africa	10
Variations in adult BMI among Indian men: a quantile regression analysis	9
Biocultural and social determinants of ill health and early mortality in a New Mexican paediatric autopsy sample	9
Factors influencing the sex ratio at birth in the United States from a historical perspective	8
Correlates of pregnancies ending in induced abortions: a population-based analysis from the age perspective	8
Pandemic preparedness and pandemic arrival: an ethnographic observation	8
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pregnancy postponement – evidence from Japan	8
Applications of new measures of population ageing using quantity and quality of remaining life years to India and selected states	8
Beyond household and individual factors: examining the association between ambient air pollution and birth outcomes in India	7
Intersectional Inequalities in Anthropometric Failure among Indian Children: Evidence from the National Family Health Survey (2015-2016)	7
The effect of different socio-economic and working conditions on body size and proportions: A case study on adults from Samsun, Turkey	7
Exploring the factors behind single-child households in Iranian families: a qualitative study	7
Prevalence and factors associated with undernutrition and overnutrition among ever-married adolescent girls in Bangladesh: an analysis of national surveys from 2004 to 2017	6
Current and past factors affecting the quality of aging in a sample of Spanish elderly	6
Black-White differences in perceived lifetime discrimination by education and income in the MIDUS Study in the U.S.	6
Unravelling biosocial dynamics? The placenta as a postgenomic bio-object in environmental epigenetic research on air pollution	6
Investigation of usage of antenatal care services by Syrian immigrant pregnant women and the frequency of anaemia and hypertension during the pandemic	6
Mediating practices in theory and action: apprehending and creating interdisciplinary data in biosocial birth cohort research	6

Biosocial disparities in substance use among sexual-minority veterans with depression: national evidence on the role of depression-related clinical contact and medication use	6
Widowhood status, morbidity, and mortality in India: evidence from a follow-up survey	6
Life-course socio-economic status and its impact on functional health of Portuguese older adults	6
Consanguinity in northwest Pakistan: evidence of temporal decline	5
‘The new geriatric giants’: how do loneliness and social isolation contribute to probable depression in older adults?	5
Intimate partner violence as a determinant of pregnancy termination among women in unions: evidence from the 2016–2018 Papua New Guinea Demographic and Health Survey	5
Trends in adult mortality rates in India, 1970 to 2018: age–period–cohort analysis	5
Identifying the reasons why men marry teenage girls: a qualitative study from the perspective of men in western Iran	5
Contribution of between region and neighborhood variation of socioeconomic factors on the practice of female genital mutilation/cutting: a multilevel analysis of Tanzanian national surveys	5
Does healthcare decision-making capacity affect women’s justification of sexual violence? The situation of sub-Saharan Africa	5
Relationship between educational assortative mating and reproductive healthcare utilization in Nigeria	5
Who is Anaemic in India? Intersections of class, caste, and gender	5
COVID-19 vaccine anxieties: exploring social and political drivers of vaccine attitudes in Kono District, Sierra Leone	5
Socioeconomic gradient in functional difficulties by domain among youth: evidence from Egypt	4
‘It’s always difficult for women’: an analysis of the life stories of sub-Saharan migrant women	4
Women’s decision-making and childhood stunting in Pakistan: a multilevel analysis	4
Association between hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and postpartum depression: a study on low- and middle-income countries with insights from Ghanaian healthcare professionals	4
The experiences of familial mental illness stigma among individuals living with mental illnesses – RETRACTION	4
Health system mistrust, ultra-orthodox Jews in the US, and vaccine hesitancy	4
Exploring the link between household structure and women’s household decision-making autonomy in Mauritania	4